Sawamoto Natsuki

Natsuki is a member of a Jpop group Fantastics from Exile Tribe, managed by LDH. He started dancing at the age of 4, first as a hobby then with the intention of becoming a professional dancer. In order to achieve his dreams he moved to Tokyo to attend LDH's dance school EXPG. His dancing talent led…

Suzuki Tatsuhisa

Suzuki Tatsuhisa is a Japanese voice actor, singer and actor. He is affiliated with I'm Enterprise and Lantis. He is the vocalist of the rock band Oldcodex under his stage name Ta_2. He married Japanese singer-songwriter LiSA on January 22, 2020. It was revealed that Tatsuhisa was cheating on his wife…

Komori Hayato

Komori Hayato is a Japanese dancer born in Mie Prefecture. He is also a member of GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE and belongs to LDH Japan. He is notably the high school junior of his fellow group mate and lead, Shirahama Alan. He became interested in EXILE after seeing their live concert due to his mother…

Goto Maki

Maki Goto (後藤 真希 Gotō Maki) (born September 23, 1985) is a Japanese singer, lyricist and former actress. Born and raised in Edogawa, Tokyo, Goto began her musical career in 1999 when she joined Morning Musume as the only third generation member. Her first single with…

Matsuzaki Shohei

Shohei Matsuzaki is a Japanese actor, model, and columnist. He was born in Tsurugashima City, Saitama Prefecture. He graduated from Saitama Prefectural Art High School in 2012 and from Tama Art University in 2016. After graduating, he worked part-time for an interior company in 2017 and, in 2018, moved…

Hashiguchi Ryosuke

A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu, 1989), and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate…

Endo Koji

Endo Koji is a Japanese composer managed by SOUND KID'S. He has worked on a vast number of films in the past decade. He has been composing music for Takashi Miike since the 1997 film Rainy Dog. He currently works out of his own studio named SoundKids in Tokyo, Japan. Endo first picked up jazz guitar…

Roj Sereeroj Jayaphorn

"Roj" Sereeroj Jayaphorn, or Roji Sensei, is a director, actor, TikToker and YouTuber born in Bangkok, Thailand. His mother was born and raised in Japan to German parents and his father was fromer Thai Deputy Minister of Commerce and Samut Songkhram assemblyman Phairot Jayaphorn. He attended Bangkok…

Kyomoto Masaki

Masaki Kyomoto is a Japanese actor, singer, tarento, and guitarist from Suita, Osaka Prefecture. He was Scouted by Kitigawa Johnny in 1975, visited junior training Camp and moved to Tokyo but declined to join as he was already in band activites in high school. Yamaha Popular Song Contest is where his…

Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Pure White

7.5

Mashiro Shibutani and her family live in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture. With a minor mental disability (that doesn't effect her daily life), she spends her days by tending to her father’s bicycle store and taking care…

30 Made ni to Urusakute

7.5

"Why do we have to be age-bound?" A humorous and bitter depiction of the real worries, impatience, and anger of a woman living in these times. Follow the love, career and sex lives of 29-year-old single women who try…

Oretachi Bad Barbers

7.5

On the surface, they're barbers, but behind the scenes, they're... Ryoshi! A retro-style barbershop tucked away in a rural town. The two men who work there have hidden lives. "For 3 million yen, we'll straighten up…

The Solitary Gourmet

7.5

Inokashira Goro, a trader of imported goods, enjoys dining at restaurants. The story opens with a quick jaunt to Paris, where an elderly Japanese expat, Ichiro, entrusts Goro with a mission to find the ingredients…

Shinhannin

7.5

The murder of Sudo Isao, a used car dealer, occurred in Shizuoka Prefecture in 2008. Detective Kusaka Satoru of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police’s Susuno Precinct checks his background. He learns that Sudo’s young…

Keibuho Yabe Kenzo 2

7.5

A thief who calls himself Blue Oracle stole into the jewellery shop which Daidoji Fumino runs, and got away with diamonds worth some 60 million yen. The criminal had sent a cryptic warning beforehand, but the police…

Boukyou

7.5

Three stories from the Shiratsuna Island: **Mikan no Hana Shiratsuna Island, Japan's last island city, is merging with a city across the shore. Tomita Misato, a housewife on the island, despises her older sister, novelist…

95

7.5

Hiroshige Akihisa, who works for a karaoke company, is interviewed about the Japanese music industry but is confused when asked about his high school days. An event from 29 years ago resurfaces his suppressed memories.…

Churasan Season 2

7.5

Ever since they moved to Eri's hometown Kohamajima, Eri and Fumiya have been running a small makeshift health center from their home. Doing so has brought Fumiya and Eri a step closer to their dream of operating a…

Labyrinth of Dreams

7.6

Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven by the handsome Tatsuo. Tomiko had received a letter from her best friend Tsuyako, a conductor in another bus company, just after Tsuyako was killed in a bus accident. Tsuyako…